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New Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 footage revealed on Sunday Night Football

Cliff Forster October 5, 2009 12:01 AM ET in Gaming

During the Sunday Night Football contest between the Steelers and the Chargers, developer Infinity Ward sprang for some prime time advertising space to show us their latest and greatest, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Previews billed the new footage as “shocking”. It was, at the very least, surprising–games based around modern warfare are a sensitive subject. While it appears that the game doesn’t link to any actual current events, it does hint at an exploration of one of America’s greatest fears. Pick up a gun, soldier. Your country needs you.

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8 Comments:

  1. Shorty
    Sniping teh enterpwise!
    5 Oct '09, 2:56 am

    Do. Want. I have really high hopes for MW2.

  2. Snarkasm
    The Photographer.
    5 Oct '09, 4:19 am

    Shorty, how many avatars are you going to have this morning?

    I need to buy a TV, STAT. I'm buying this day 1.

  3. Shorty
    Sniping teh enterpwise!
    5 Oct '09, 4:28 am

    Well theoretically I should have just the one. Years ago, I hacked a template mod to auto rotate some avatars. Bizarrely, it's come back. I am assuming that this is definitely Lincoln related. Infact, I know it is because he was mentioning something on Twitter!

  4. chrisWhite
    Polygons
    5 Oct '09, 9:42 am

    Yeah, this looks sick!

  5. UPSLynx
    The Dean of Computer Graphics
    5 Oct '09, 5:53 pm

    I hate that I'm jaded to the Call of Duty games now. I LOVED the original CoD (when WWII games had not yet seen their oversaturation point). But crap, now days we're seeing a new CoD game every, what, 9 months it seems? Plus, the series have increasingly grown to support the console gamers more than the PC, where it originated.

    I wasn't even going to watch this trailer, but there it sat on the front of gaming.icrontic. And I was a little board, so whatever. Clicked play.

    I didn't even pay attention to the first half. Meh, more of the same. Brothers in combat, drama, slow motion deaths, ect.

    It wasn't until I saw the Washington monument in pieces that I sat up in my chair. I rewound the trailer...

    They're taking some risky business with this game. But it was enough to make me pay attention. That's saying something.

  6. Cliff Forster
    Keepin it real
    5 Oct '09, 10:53 pm

    Bobby,

    Call of Duty has perpetually been on of my favorite franchises since the original. I know its almost Madden like with the yearly release, but it does keep getting better all the time.

    I have a theory on why there are so many WWII games. See, its simple, its sociably acceptable to fight the Nazi's, zero gray area there, you have good, you have evil. Even in Germany the denounce that part of their history.

    When you are talking about a modern setting the issues are obviously far more sensitive. Post 09/11 its almost unfathomable to think that you could explore an environment with the US capitol under attack, yet, they went there. I think its going to be 100% visceral.

  7. Snarkasm
    The Photographer.
    6 Oct '09, 3:16 am

    I got tired of WWII a long time ago, but the every-other-year release of Modern Warfare-series games is going to hold onto me for a while, I think.

    And I like it.

  8. shwaip
    elaborate bot
    5 Nov '09, 2:25 am

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